Lateefah Simon

Democrat · CA-12 · U.S. House

Bio

Lateefah Aaliyah Simon is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first member of Congress known to be born legally blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern United States.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 372 of 437 by time served
Age: 49

District offices

Oakland, CA · 510-763-0370

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2025

−$1k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $7k – $105k
Liabilities: $35k – $80k
Net worth: −$73k – $70k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 assets reported

Charles Schwab ⇒ iShares ESG Aware 1-5 Year USD Corporate Bond ETF (SUSB)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF (ESGD)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF (DSI)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ iShares ESG Select Screened S&P Mid-Cap ETF (XJH)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Growth ETF (NULG)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF (SPTL)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.61

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.93

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.86

Crime & Policing

D+0.91

Defense & Veterans

D+0.99

Economy & Labor

D+0.66

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.77

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.80

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.89

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Lateefah Simon's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Communist Party USA

92%Closest

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

92%

92%

87%

52%

23%

On the political map

Lateefah Simon (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Simonsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Health Care and Financial Services Federal Law Enforcement
House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development

Most and least aligned members

Treating Simon's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.